With Windows 7 seemingly gaining more and more popularity, a question some people may have is how legacy games will work in the new OS. The solution to this may be as simple as using a virtual machine (ala Microsoft Virtual PC) to run the games.

While Virtual PC does not support hardware acceleration, you can see that it runs the FPS Quake 2 quite well using software rendering. That said, true legacy games should run fine in a virtual machine with little performance hit. You should, however disable Integrated Mode if you are using Windows XP Mode in Windows 7.

Does anyone currently play games in a virtual machine? If so, how is the performance?

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